France is listening to world business leaders in an effort to create an even more competitive business environment in the global economy. By easing the tax burden on companies and high-level executives, France is working to create an even more attractive opportunity for foreign businesses to succeed here.

Clara Gaymard

Listen to advice, but follow your heart.

Conway Twitty

I was still listening to the Beatles until I came here, you know.

David Thewlis

Most times, kids don't want you to do very much, just listen and give them support.

Mary Morrison

We just can't get the Pentagon down here to listen.

Al Hunt

No, no, you listen.

James Long

In court, he has an ability to be criticized. So I have no hesitation to disagree, and I know he's going to listen. That, along with his ability to see the lighter side, even when oftentimes there are unattractive issues before him, are important ingredients to his disposition.

Tom Costello

It is only fair that we listen to the wide range of views that exist in Edinburgh.

Andrew Burns

We may learn anew what compassion and beauty are, and pause to listen to the Earth's music.

David Brower

It's an excuse for us to listen to music together.

Tim Carroll

The answers to life's questions lie inside you. All you need to do is look listen and trust.

Cherie Carter Scott

Our goal is to have something for every exhibition. This is new and we want to hear students' ideas because they're the ones that will be listening to it.

Christopher Wilson

Listen, no matter what, when he's running, ... you throw it to first.

David Justice

We called them and said, 'Listen, we want you to show the region that it's OK to come into the city,'.

Dennis Wilson

I think we want to listen to what people say; that's our job.

Brian Humke

It really doesn't matter to me. He could be up there and he'll scream something to me and I'll listen, but the hype and the focus that's on him when he's at the games doesn't matter to me or my team.

Jeff Jordan

Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own.

Andrew V. Mason

What it is we may have overlooked, and why we might want to reconsider. We'll listen to what they have to say.

Joe Zwilling

They listen and it makes them feel that I am not here for an exercise in conversion or political discussion. It's about the Islamic way of life.

Ahmed N. Elrefai

We know on their own no one will listen to them. That's what all this is about. It's going to make a better community, and make the schools better.

Tom Ziemann

When you look at how quickly that song grew on the charts, it was a one-listen [thing]. When you have that kind of connection out of the gate, it only gets bigger from there.

Amy Doyle

I grew up listening to albums by Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix, and they all worked on that multi-layered level.

Dave Navarro

We got the feeling that the station just wasn't going to listen.

John Davies

We need to listen to our kids and provide something that will engage them.

Alan Edelman

He's experienced at his job. He's got a resume longer than me probably. I look at it as listening to him will get me where I need to go.

Shawne Williams

Listen to how Lucille responds back to him.

Barbara May

Spend a lot of time talking to customers face to face. You'd be amazed how many companies don't listen to their customers.

H Ross Perot

I think if enough people tell him they oppose it, he will listen.

Michael Town

But nothing was done, and we felt they didn't listen to us.

Linda Baumann

Since God knows our future, our personalities, and our capacity to listen, He isn't ever going to say more to us than we can deal with at the moment.

Charles Stanley

It's over. Once you see they've got a list, people have already stopped listening.

Bruce Vilanch

(The size) may change because we want to listen to what the people want.

Shelly Stont

Health care in this country is in a rut, ... The system doesn't care, politicians don't listen and insurance companies are looking only at the bottom line.

Louis Simpson

We like to invite friends and family over for dinner, listen to what they're are up to and hear what's going on in Nevada. We can't wait to get back home.

Bruce James

There are always people who make a big fuss over everything. At a certain point, I stop listening.

Andre Lange

A pessimist is a person who has to listen to too many optimists.

Don Marquis

The government has gone deaf. They are not listening to the people and this is a time for them to start listening.

Bruce Golding

Go back in the other room. Listen to me. Five, four, three. ...

Lisa Jackson

Of course we're willing to listen to concerns that will be raised.

Richard Levin

When they called me in, they told me to first listen to everything they had to say.

Scott Olsen

I constantly listen to the universe, and I advise all other artists to do the same.

Ted Lange

Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.

Jim Carrey

Oracle is coming across as very benevolent, very interested in feedback from user groups, and very helpful in listening to customers; we feel they're going to listen to us.

John Matelski

It was really fun. He's always thinking, so he has a lot to talk about. I had fun just listening to him.

Junko Abe

When you don't see an actor's face, it forces you to listen to what he has to say. What was important to me was that the ideas came through.

Hugo Weaving

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Doug Larson

Companies are not helpless in fluctuating currencies. But if you listen to these U.S. companies, you only hear about it when the currency situation hurts them, never when it helps them. I'll listen to these excuses when they acknowledge that this stuff cuts both ways.

Marc Chandler

Sometimes when everybody is playing at once, I listen here with one ear and overhear with the other ear.

Virginia Anderson

They are actually manufactured entertainment groups. They are a product of technology. What you are listening to is technology.

Paul Anka

When you least expect it, someone may actually listen to what you have to say.

Maggie Kuhn

Anger is a signal, and one worth listening to.

Harriet Lerner

Chris Schenkel was a giant. As a boy, I would listen to him. When a game would get really exciting in the fourth quarter, he would say, 'Is there a better way to spend an autumn afternoon?'

Jim Nantz

Reading music is like listening to flowers. I don't understand the concept.

Paul Westerberg

I get a sense that you're really listening and hearing, and I commend you on that.

Alvis Aikens

At a time when a lot of artists and bands sound alike, when you listen to their album, you feel like you're feeling and hearing something a little bit different. They are kind of special.

Rob Weiss

I told my kids to get fast starts and I guess they listen to me too well.

Al Marks

We're going to keep trying until people start listening, until things change.

Duke Cox

I'm sick and -- tired of you [people] causing all this -- drama ... It's all immature -- and I just sit around listening wanting to die.

William Floyd

It was just so fun coming to the garage, gossiping, eating, playing music, listening to music. Just having fun.

Torry Castalleno

I tried to be a lot more personal with the lyrics. Some of them are definitely about heartbreak and girls, but a lot of them are about my father and his battles with alcoholism. That's how I like to listen to bands. I would like to know that the singer was actually going through that.

Jt Woodruff

We're an ROI, margin-driven company. We like to listen to franchisee input because they're in the business every day.

Jim Abrahamson

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

Will Oldham

If Beijing tells provincial authorities to do something, they don't listen. But if they are told these are WTO rules then there is more chance of compliance.

Owen Nee

The difference between listening to a radio sermon and going to church...is almost like the difference between calling your girl on the phone and spending an evening with her.

Dwight L. Moody

We're not looking for a white knight . . . If somebody else comes along, we'll listen to what they'll say, but it hasn't happened yet.

David Rowland

We will be attending with an open mind to listen to any ideas that are put forward.

Keith Wyness

When he calls, you listen.

Gene Keady

The fact is, yes, our customers are important, ... We do listen to our fans. We do survey our fans. And we do try to connect with them. I'd be the first to tell you that we clearly need to do a better job at that. That starts with me and any contact we have with our fan base.

David Montgomery

You've got a roomful of people - the baseline of the Democratic process. Listen to the roomful of people.

Neal Cunningham

I always had one ear offstage, listening for the call from the bookie.

Walter Matthau

(When choosing a place to live) you have to listen to your family and find out what is important to them ... you might be more comfortable in an enclave of fellow expatriates who have your way of thinking and whom you are comfortable with.

Bert Sperling

I guess my experience with God had to be without external influences because I certainly wasn't listening to anyone but my selfish self.

Daniel Smith

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to.

Hansell B. Duckett

You can listen to what everybody says, but the fact remains that you've got to get out there and do the thing yourself.

Joan Sutherland

They want a docile Assad regime. I think the Americans are listening to the Saudis.

Rime Allaf

They did it and responded to each other doing it. They learn from each other and get challenged. They have a lot to say, and we need to listen to them.

John Mcewen

When it comes to basketball, it's not that hard. You gotta go out and play like you gotta play and listen to the coaching staff. You just have to go out and play hard, and we call that Spartan basketball.

Shannon Brown

The America night. It was better because I was with my wife. How can you beat that? ... Listening to my wife getting it done. That was it for me.

Bob Costello

Many people may listen, but few people actually hear.

Harvey Mackay

I am too weary to listen, too angry to hear.

Daniel Bell

I make progress by having people around me who are smarter than I am and listening to them. And I assume that everyone is smarter about something than I am.

Henry J. Kaiser

If anybody calls, we'll listen.

Randy Hendricks

The funny thing is, they would listen.

Brenda Roethlisberger

Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.

Shel Silverstein

The Parks Department is listening. There is some good dialogue going on. Whatever happens is just icing on the cake for me. The big thing was getting the park.

Robert Holden

People are going to start listening. People are already listening.

Vic Lawson

I am going to put the issue before my bosses, I hope they will listen to me.

Jackson Mayanja

The Bristol folks are going to let us know what they're thinking at some point down the line. Mike Hamilton [Tennessee AD] and I both feel like we've got to listen.

Jim Weaver

I grew up listening to the radio and to records. I learned music mainly from that.

Robert Ashley

It's amazing to see kids in grades 1 through 4 sitting there absolutely silent listening to him. It gave me goose bumps.

Anne Dobrowski

Listen to your mind, and you'll tire quickly of it's discourse.Silence your mind, and you'll connect straight back to source.

Gabriella Goddard

Well I have a microphone and you don't so you will listen to every damn word I have to say!

Adam Sandler

We had to calm down and listen to our coaches. We had to come out and keep playing our game.

Alysha Harvin

If you can run, you should listen.

Sandy Alomar

One can't go over the top with the weirdness; it seems too easy. Slipknot, I can't listen to.

Steve Beyerink

We listen to him on a variety of subjects. Sean is in contact with him constantly. Yes, we do talk to him and see him as often as we can.

James Dickey

We haven't been listening to legal immigrants. We've been taking their name in vain.

Sandy Close

A man's silence is wonderful to listen to.

Thomas Hardy

A book comes and says, "Write me." My job is to try to serve it to the best of my ability, which is never good enough, but all I can do is listen to it, do what it tells me and collaborate.

Madeleine L'Engle

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.

Carmen Electra

Tiger Woods is incredibly influential. If Tim Finchem doesn't listen to Tiger Woods, he's crazy.

Stephen Ross

Since I'm a rookie, I'm going to do a lot of listening before I open my mouth. I'll try to use some wisdom and some discernment before I open my mouth.

Jim Kaplan

I never for a day gave up listening to the songs of our birds, or watching their peculiar habits, or delineating them in the best way I could.

John James Audubon

Although they had announced March 2 as the closing date, I think -- not only in response to us and the courts, but frankly, because they've been listening closer to the Congress -- I think that deal will not close until tomorrow or Monday.

Robert Kimmitt

You can't listen to the news or watch the dramatic images of the effects of Katrina and not want to lend a hand.

Christian Furchtegott Gellert

If you listen to his comedy ... it's serious stuff. There's war, there's racism, there's fights, there's violence, there's arguments. And then you find the joke in it.

Ali Leroi

We can sit there and the professors say that we have a voice, but they don't have to listen to us, there is no force there.

James Reilly

He tried, and tried, but they weren't interested and weren't listening.

Steve Langdon

If your child says he has a headache, listen to him.

Nancy Mcgee

They were telling us where to attack, ... They told us they had no orders to shoot, so we were listening. We had control in our hands.

Velimir Ilic

These kids had to listen to people say they didn't belong. That's [garbage].

Tom Yeager

I don't even listen to it. I don't get involved in it.

Marcel Shipp

The testimony from the Farm Bill Forum listening sessions across the country indicated that the farm bill is working. If you're going to do anything, draft one that mirrors that.

Doug Peterson

We take and take and take from these kids - and what are they going to do? The bottom line is, you've got a bunch of kids with nothing to do - and things escalate. .... You have to listen to kids. We stop doing that as adults.

Gary Jackson

Plan D is about debate, dialogue and listening. It is a means of harnessing political ideas to generate change.

Margot Wallstrom

It's not music that we hear. Maybe if we were listening and hearing the music, it wouldn't be so bad. It's the vibrating . . . It's the boom, boom, boom that you hear.

Nancy Mitchell

Listen, someone's screaming in agony - fortunately I speak it fluently.

Spike Milligan

If they listen to us it is because we give them what they most want: respect. If you respect them, they respect you.

Samir Mihi

It's a barred owl. The call is on the CD I handed out. Listen to it.

James Lloyd

What we'd like to do is encourage Cowboys fans to turn down the TV sound and listen to our flagship radio station. Just like on game day.

Rich Dalrymple

Why should I pay strangers to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?

Ellen DeGeneres

I just like sitting here and listening to the conversation and learning from what everybody is saying.

Matt Marone

We want this record to be something that people really listen to, rather than just have in their record collection.

The Edge

They're seeing each other more. They're listening to each other more. In the huddle everybody hears what each other are saying.

Pam Edwards

I have done my best to keep my young men quiet, but some will not listen and since the fighting began, I have not been able to keep them at home.

Black Kettle

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

Chris Bailey

Earl wouldn't say one word to me. He'd just listen and listen and listen. And he'd ask questions. He never interfered. He wanted to listen.

John Anselmo

I call him Master and Commander. He deserves respect and you listen to him.

Brock Kreitzburg

And Sharkey says: Deep in the heart of darkest America. Home of the brave. He says: Listen to my heart beat.

Laurie Anderson

We talk about it frequently. It gives you reason to listen to what happened and see if you can learn from it.

Art Palm

We really have something for everybody. We are a tune us in and listen radio station. Tune us in at www.wwolradio.org and find out what we are doing.

Don Swarthout

You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. Your voice comes out.

Kathy Mattea

He is one of the best players. He's always saying something and you need to listen because he knows the game better than anybody.

Alexander Frolov

The students would not only get help with the FCAT they will also get a mentor who will listen and respect them, a true friend.

Aja Watkins

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully and yell for help if you need it.

Judy Blume

It's a different level of use than we've seen in the past. It's becoming more of a full-day listening experience as opposed to just when you're jogging.

Robert Novak

Some people are listening to us. But one life lost is one too many.

Collen Msibi

I hope he'll get the right jury that will listen to everything like they did with me.

Tyquan General

I usually just leave because they usually play rock and stuff, ... I don't really listen to that stuff.

Anthony Jackson

For the equivalent of a listening tour, without labeling it as such.

Lee Miringoff

She's been pretty steady. She's a hard worker and very good when it comes to listening.

Tinsley Slusher

A lot of times if you listen to a story from a child, you find something else they're trying to tell you.

Bev Twillmann

Cable & Wireless is concerned that some customers feel they were not given enough time to sign up for a plan. Therefore, after listening to our customers, we have decided to grant this extension.

Vance Lewis

People who go to places of worship, people who go to libraries, people who are in chat rooms, are going to have 'Big Brother' listening in even though there's no evidence that they are involved in anything illegal whatsoever.

Laura Murphy

I wake my wife up at 3 a.m. and say, 'Listen to this!'

Barry Hannah

You have to be able to listen to what you're being told and implement that on the court, but we didn't do that.

Gary Porter

You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.

Lee Trevino

Nobody is listening to us. We've given (township officials) feedback. We're not going to let it stop here.

Jennifer Pugh

They're listening and learning and they're eager. It's kind of neat to see.

Danny Rocco

Listen to your momma.

Fantasia Barrino

Coach kind of got upset that we didn't listen to him. We can't let half our shots be threes in the first half.

Taurean Green

We just listen to the records we are given. If he wasn't eligible then we wouldn't have been listening to it.

Simon Frith

Basically we just have to listen to what the coaches tell us and be in the right spots to make plays.

Antonio Robinson

Why should we give him the satisfaction of listening to him?

Charlie Otero

I guess you could say I've always been country; maybe more so than a lot of the other acts you listen to today.

David Allan Coe

We want adults involved in the lives of kids, and we want kids involved in the lives of their communities. We need to listen to the kids, to get them involved.

Jim Copple

We were all hanging out, listening to music, talking.

Jesiah Martin

I thought there was some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen.

Fred Rogers

I always listen to 'NSYNC's Tearin' Up My Heart. It reminds me to wear a bra.

Britney Spears

Sometimes, people just need someone to listen.

John Short

You have to listen to that song at 11, that's just the way it is.

Lil Jon

The human brain can soften as a result of incessant listening to music with an intent to commit prose.

Donal Henahan

He's very good at giving the appearance that he's listening closely to what you're saying. In the end, his votes have fallen along the conservative party line.

Roger Singer

Diverting the internal traffic between the Writer as Angel of Light and the Writer as Hustler is that scribbling child in a grown-up body wondering if anybody is listening.

Herbert Gold

As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was.

Wanda Jackson

I've got to take the good with the bad. You can't listen too much to the good, can't listen too much to the bad. I've just got to keep getting better.

Tarvaris Jackson

They tried to tell us about the low air pressure stuff. We didn't listen.

Bobby Hamilton Jr

Everything points to the defendant's guilt in this case.... Listen and remember the defendant's own words during the course of the trial.

Thomas O'malley

I kept that audio cassette, but I haven't yet had the strength to listen to it again.

Stanislaw Dziwisz

I'm listening to what people have to say, and I'll be in a position to make an announcement soon.

Alex Munter

We just have to go out, listen to the coaches, and have fun pretty much. We just have to let the game come to us.

Antoine Rutherford

I'm glad they'll be coming to Gettysburg, and I'm glad they'll be listening to the people.

Susan Star Paddock

He still calls me and I know his listening to what we've been doing.

Kelly Robinson

It's wonderful. Some people just come and sit for hours and just listen.

Jerri Tuck

In an information world where we all seem to have so much to say -- it is important to remember that sometimes we need to listen.

Robert Anthony

We didn't listen to critics, ... We did things with the fans and we did it our way. . . . That's what I'd like to be remembered by.

Mick Mars

It's really, really inspiring to listen to these young people. They not only have an idealistic commitment, but an openness, even kindness, toward the community that I didn't expect.

Vassar College

The good thing about this is there are no rules. As long as we listen to our viewers, we can try just about anything.

Anthony Marshall

The mayor will be listening to them ... to see if anything they have to say is acceptable.

Marty Mcomber

He'll always listen to you. I think he understand that it takes having everyone on board for this to work.

Nancy Crowley

One woman came up to me and said, 'After listening to it, I started to cry,'.

Jaguar Wright

It was kind of cool to be able to go back and listen to what it was that I was doing during a particular time in my career.

Stanley Clarke

And I listen to the radio in the morning.

Alex Olson

Everyone has an opinion about how it should be run. I listen to what they say, and I'm their coach. I try to make sure that they're doing things in a safe, healthy and efficient way.

Raymond Mohan

As for listening to other recordings - that's just about all that I do. I listen to everyone. First thing when I wake up, I turn my set on.

Ben Webster

It's not me; it's the people here. I listen and lead and coach.

Robert Bohn

We have heard our members. We hope that AK Steel begins listening.

Brian Daley

I've had a lot of people come up and say they listen to our broadcasts, they like what we are doing and we sounded pretty good over the air.

Jake Lemon

I could be very bitter about it, but I don't think it would help me, ... People would get bored of listening to me harping on about it and I get bored with people talking about it.

Alain Baxter

In just ten syllables, the terror of Alzheimer's is conveyed to the listening audience.

Brian Forest

It was very exciting. The kids were afforded the opportunity to see many artists that they listen to and buy CDs from all the time.

Brian Millsapp

Probably yes, but I don't know if they'll listen to me.

Mark O'meara

It seems if you listen hard enough, you can still hear the outcry of horror of the murdered people.

Moshe Katsav

You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting.

Cyrus Vance

Intelligent people listen to radio. They don't need pictures. They use their imagination and appreciate the call.

Paul Woods

Those who still think listening isn't an art should see if they can do it half as well.

Michael Ende

You can't fake listening. It shows.

Raquel Welch

Sometimes, after a storm, people say there was no warning. There was a warning, but nobody was listening.

Jeff Last

I am their commander and if the commander tells them to stay in their barracks, they should listen.

General Sonthi Boonyaratglin

My mom is incredible. I always listen to her, ... We're best friends, and at the same time we'll butt heads every now and then because we have the exact same personality.

Ashlee Simpson